CCAM Partnership Clusters
The ambition of the CCAM Partnership is to
The outstanding challenges preventing to realise this ambition require:
- understanding the needs of users, society, and other stakeholders,
- advancing technologies, and
- demonstrating the maturity of mobility and transport services at a large scale.
The related R&I activities are grouped thematically in “clusters”. These Clusters together form a comprehensive framework for achieving the Partnerships’ objectives and expected impacts. The Partnership’s cluster structure shows the links between these objectives/impacts and specific R&I actions. The Clusters are interlinked and each Cluster provides input to other Clusters.
Key enabling technologies (Cluster 5) are needed to enhance solutions. These will be implemented together with future vehicle technologies for sensing, sensor fusion and enhanced safety systems (Cluster 2). The overall transport system integration complements safe human-machine interaction to understand the requirements and needs for traffic and fleet management and provide physical and digital infrastructure support (Cluster 4).
Before demonstrating at a large scale (Cluster 1), safe and resilient system functioning needs to be validated (Cluster 3). All activities are linked through coordination (Cluster 7) of all relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment, interoperability and accelerating innovation uptake. Below a short description of each cluster, whereas by clicking each tile more information is available.
Cluster 1: Large-scale Demonstration
The objective of Cluster 1 is to continuously implement results of all other Clusters into Large-scale Demonstrations in Pilots, FOTs and Living Labs supporting deployment readiness and a final impact assessment.
Cluster 2: Vehicle technologies
This Cluster aims to deliver the most efficient and effective future solutions which have been proven to be safe and reliable. For Europe’s future mobility and transport system, significant technical research and innovation challenges must be overcome since tomorrow’s highly automated vehicles will rely on advanced solutions to “sense-think-act’, enabling safe interaction with other road users and providing protection in the case of emergency, while also ensuring the wellbeing of the vehicle occupants.
Cluster 3: Validation
This Cluster provides the procedures, methodologies and tools which are needed for validating, verifying and rating CCAM systems, in terms of both technologies themselves and human factors handling the technologies. This includes suitable metrics and references for system behaviour and performance.
Cluster 4: Integrating CCAM in the transport system
The research and innovation activities in this Cluster advance the physical and digital infrastructure support for CCAM vehicles and improve connectivity and cooperation between actors, which support the integration of CCAM vehicles in the overall transport system so that fleet and traffic management systems can be enhanced.
Cluster 5: Key enabling technologies
Cluster 5 is embedding “Key enabling technologies” such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cybersecurity and Edge computing with technical details, contributions, requirements and risks for Cluster 2, 3 and 4. These vehicle technologies support the whole mobility system, integrating the vehicles in the transport system, as well as the validation of all aspects of the entire system.
Cluster 6: Societal aspects and people needs
This Cluster delivers the framework for understanding and taking into account user and citizen needs, and societal aspects of mobility to all other Clusters. Methods and measures for societal impact assessment are developed and applied when executing the final societal impact assessment from Cluster 1 results.
Cluster 7: Coordination
This Cluster is coordinating all CCAM stakeholders and activities, facilitates knowledge exchange und enables lessons learned.
